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Bitcoin briefly hit $70,000 on Coinbase on Wednesday, the first time since June 2, according to TradingView data.

Bitcoin jumped 8.7% on Wednesday to an intraday high of $69,749, its steepest daily gain since March 4 and highest price since June 1.

Elon Musk has embraced the Kardashev scale, a 1964 theory by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, as a grand solution to the climate crisis.

In a provocative essay written for the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, Tao argues that the math community must stop debating what AI can do and instead confront a question it has largely avoided: what exactly are the goals of mathematical research?

A prominent crypto trader who had amassed $49 million in short-selling profits was forcibly liquidated early Thursday, losing nearly $24 million on a single ether position in just 12 seconds.